Increasing the Visibility and Impact of Aerospace Engineering
- 1. Increasing the Visibility and Impact of Aerospace Engineering Digital Repository @ Iowa State University Harrison W. Inefuku Digital Repository Coordinator 10/16/2014
- 2. Digital Repository @ Iowa State University http://lib.dr.iastate.edu An online database containing scholarship by Iowa State faculty, staff and students, including: Journal articles and book chapters; Conference proceedings and posters; Technical reports and white papers; Images and multimedia
- 3. Traditional Scholarly Publishing Often behind subscription pay walls, presenting barriers for: Colleagues at smaller colleges and universities; Independent and corporate researchers; Researchers in developing countries; Students; and The Public.
- 4. Digital Repository Free, public access to scholarship; Increases visibility and impact of research; Only upload publications in accordance with copyright and publishers policies Include full citation to original publication
- 5. What can go up? Published Version American Institute of Physics AIP Conference Proceedings Applied Physics Letters Journal of the Acoustical Society of America American Physical Society Physical Review B SPIE Proceedings of SPIE Authors Manuscript AIAA* Journal of Guidance Control and Dynamics Cambridge University Press* Journal of Fluid Mechanics Elsevier Ultrasonics Springer Strength of Materials
- 6. Benefits Scholarship available in one location; Download statistics Monthly download reports via e-mail Detailed metrics via Author Dashboard Stable URLs for articles Indexed by Google, Google Scholar Included in university library catalogs worldwide
- 7. SelectedWorks Researcher Profiles Provide context for your scholarship Highly ranked in search engine results Mailing lists and social media buttons enable following and sharing Complement personal and departmental websites http://works.bepress.com/stephen_holland
- 8. Journals and Conference Proceedings Supports full peer-review workflow Custom branding and design Review of Progress in Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation, http://lib.dr.iastate.edu/qnde.
- 9. Impact Rank University 1 University of Illinois 2 Purdue University 3 University of NebraskaLincoln 4 Ohio State University 5 Texas A&M University 6 Wageningen University 7 University of WisconsinMadison 8 Michigan State University 9 Cornell University 10 Pennsylvania State University 2,139,790 downloads since April 2012 26,772 items; ~80 downloads/item Visitors from 208 countries and territories 22.5% of visitors are from university campuses (see right) Cited in peer-reviewed journals, extension publications and other resources
- 10. Top AERE theses and dissertations Author Title Major Professor Downloads Nathaniel Knop Thermal analysis of a fireplace using ANSYS Vinay Dayal 3144 Wei Du Dynamic modeling and ascent flight control of Ares-I Crew Launch Vehicle Bong Wie 1,974 William Lai Characteristics of dielectric elastomers and fabrication of dielectric elastomer actuators for artificial muscle applications Ashraf F. Bastawrows, Wei Hong 1,669 Elbert Jeyapaul Turbulent flow separation in three- dimensional asymmetric diffusers Paul A. Durbin 1,666 Travis Grager Experimental study of low Reynolds number flow control devices: dynamic burst control plate and dynamic roughness Hui Hu, Alric Rothmayer 1,452
- 11. The Process 1. E-mail your vita to digirep@iastate.edu 2. Repository Staff will 1. Check the copyright of your publications and, when possible, secure permission from your publishers to upload 2. Collect PDFs of your publications and upload, when allowed 3. Contact you for manuscripts of your articles and upload, when allowed 4. Create a SelectedWorks researcher profile for you
- 12. Thank you! Harrison W. Inefuku Digital Repository Coordinator hinefuku@iastate.edu Hope Mitchell Library Associate hmitchel@iastate.edu Susan Knippel Systems Support Specialist sknippel@iastate.edu